Interior climate control augmentation by personal comfort data provided via wireless wearable device communications

Abstract

An affective computing server (ACS) is described herein that is incorporated into a mobile wireless network management infrastructure. The ACS is configured to carry out a method over a mobile wireless network for maintaining a comfort status of a user of a wearable device. The ACS registers the wearable device associated with the user. The ACS receives, via a mobile wireless technology link, a user comfort status profile (UCSP) message issued by the wearable device, where the UCSP message includes at least a parameter value indicative of the comfort status of the user. The ACS processes the UCSP message to render a comfort control request based upon the UCSP. The ACS causes a sending of the comfort control request over a mobile wireless technology to an actuator (e.g. a heating/air conditioning system) for affecting a change in the comfort status of the user of the wearable device.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A method carried out over a mobile wireless network for maintaining a comfort status of a user of a wearable device, the method comprising:
 registering, by an affective computing server (ACS), the wearable device associated with the user; 
 receiving, by the ACS via a mobile wireless technology link, a user comfort status profile (UCSP) message issued by the wearable device, where the UCSP message includes at least a parameter value indicative of the comfort status of the user; 
 processing, by the ACS, the UCSP message to render a comfort control request based upon the UCSP; and 
 sending, by the ACS, the comfort control request to an actuator for affecting a change in the comfort status of the user of the wearable device. 
 
     
     
       2. The method of  claim 1  wherein the parameter value indicative of the comfort status is a living space environmental status indicator. 
     
     
       3. The method of  claim 1  wherein the parameter value indicative of the comfort status is a biomarker value indicative of wellbeing of the user of the wearable device. 
     
     
       4. The method of  claim 3  wherein the UCSP is transmitted in a constrained application protocol (CoAP) message over the 5G mobile wireless technology link. 
     
     
       5. The method of  claim 1  wherein the mobile wireless technology link is a 5G mobile wireless technology link. 
     
     
       6. The method of  claim 2  wherein the wearable device is an edge computing device that communicates with the ACS via the 5G mobile wireless technology link. 
     
     
       7. The method of  claim 1  wherein the ACS provides program configuration updates to the wearable device or the actuator using light weight machine to machine (LWM2M) protocol messaging. 
     
     
       8. The method of  claim 7  wherein an ACS-to-wearable device messaging is steered to wireless transmission resources according to a spectrum utilization rules configuration and current sensed mobility status of the wearable device. 
     
     
       9. The method of  claim 1  wherein a hosting by the ACS is determined based upon capabilities at a local multi-access edge computing network, for a seamless wearer device user experience, where a determination of whether to use a home domain ACS (H-ACS) or a local domain ACS (L-ACS) is based on a smart contract between a local network service provider associated with the L-ACS and a core network service provider associated with the H-ACS, where the smart contract contains a service-level agreements between peer entities. 
     
     
       10. The method of  claim 9  wherein the smart contract uses a blockchain protocol, and a curated user data repository (UDR). 
     
     
       11. The method of  claim 1  wherein the ACS utilizes different network slice types of a 5G network based upon particular quality of service requirements for messaging between the wearable device and the ACS. 
     
     
       12. The method of  claim 1  wherein the wearable device incorporates a Representational State Transfer (REST) oriented application programming interface for interacting with the ACS. 
     
     
       13. The method of  claim 1  wherein the ACS communicates with the wearable device over configurations of:
 a gNB over sub 6 GHz spectrum and millimeter wave spectrum, and 
 an eNB over sub 6 GHz spectrum. 
 
     
     
       14. The method of  claim 1  wherein the actuator is an indoor climate control device. 
     
     
       15. The method of  claim 14  wherein the indoor climate control device is a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. 
     
     
       16. The method of  claim 1  wherein the actuator is a personal medical treatment device. 
     
     
       17. The method of  claim 1  wherein, during the sending, the comfort control request is sent over a mobile wireless technology. 
     
     
       18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions for carrying out a method over a mobile wireless network for maintaining a comfort status of a user of a wearable device, the method comprising:
 registering, by an affective computing server (ACS), the wearable device associated with the user; 
 receiving, by the ACS via a mobile wireless technology link, a user comfort status profile (UCSP) message issued by the wearable device, where the UCSP message includes at least a parameter value indicative of the comfort status of the user; 
 processing, by the ACS, the UCSP message to render a comfort control request based upon the UCSP; and 
 sending, by the ACS, the comfort control request to an actuator for affecting a change in the comfort status of the user of the wearable device. 
 
     
     
       19. An affective computing server (ACS) incorporated into a mobile wireless network management infrastructure, the ACS comprising:
 a processor; and 
 a non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions for carrying out a method over a mobile wireless network for maintaining a comfort status of a user of a wearable device, the method comprising:
 registering, by the ACS, the wearable device associated with the user; 
 receiving, by the ACS via a mobile wireless technology link, a user comfort status profile (UCSP) message issued by the wearable device, where the UCSP message includes at least a parameter value indicative of the comfort status of the user; 
 processing, by the ACS, the UCSP message to render a comfort control request based upon the UCSP; and 
 sending, by the ACS, the comfort control request to an actuator for affecting a change in the comfort status of the user of the wearable device. 
 
 
     
     
       20. The ACS of  claim 19  wherein, during the sending, the comfort control request is sent over a mobile wireless technology.